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If Indiana police's charges are true, George Helms collected identification cards like baseball cards. When it came to his alleged identity-theft scam, Helms seemed to be a careful man, but he didn't account for a new software program when he walked into the Hobart, Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV).According to CBS2 Chicago, police arrested Helms, who had filed paperwork and taken a photo for what is alleged to have been his eleventh Indiana license on August 14th. According to the BMV, its facial-recognition software detected similarities between his submitted photo and those of 10 other Indiana licenses, all allegedly belonging to Helms. Police claim that Helms also had 15 IDs from Illinois. He was charged with seven counts of forgery.
If Helms is indeed the culprit, how did he get away with this scam for so long? Sure, he used different names (Eric Nicholson or Vernon Eugene Lyons), but -- judging from the above pictures -- Helms couldn't be called a master of disguise. [From: CBS 2 Chicago via CNET News]
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Subscribe to commentsangel7461Aug 27th 2009 3:27PM
They will likely find he has been collecting either unemployment or Social Service checks with every one of the ID's. There is a huge scam from LA to IL where folks go from state to state at the first of the month collecting checks as they drive. It has been around for years because the system has no due diligence or way to police itself and we can see how behind our own ID technology is.